Tuesday, November 11, 2008

ilk-hood

noun. Cohortitude?

Real citation: "Poor HuffnPuff she has to make herself viable for some reason every election year...no matter what party she decides to join at the time...at least in her mind...and some of her loony ilk-hood."(June 19, 2007, NewsBusters, http://newsbusters.org/node/13583)

Made-up citation: "I'm always looking for people of my ilk, people whose ilk-hood I can understand. My non-ilk hate me; I've been tossed out of ilks before. Ilkiness is hard to identify, but when I see some good ilk, I know it."

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Mark Peters (better known as wordlust on Twitter) is a euphemism-collector for Visual Thesaurusand a blogger for Oxford University Press. Formerly, this blog was a collection of rare, raw, real words. Now it's the forever home for orphaned humor pieces and encore tweets.